Any blogger who links to this morning’s Washington Post story “The Year Of Playing Dirtie: Negative Ads Get Positively Surreal” is sure to be inaudated by spam-spewing blogbots.  But here at Extreme Mortman, we’re willing to take the risk, if only to run this quote by Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI), who’s facing a sex-themed XXX ad in his re-election run:

The “pays for sex” ad against Kind in Wisconsin — along with a similar one aired against Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.) — may be the most extreme. It says Kind spent tax dollars to study “the sex lives of Vietnamese prostitutes” and “the masturbation habits of old men” and “to pay teenage girls to watch pornographic movies with probes connected to their genitalia.” Cue the punch line: “Ron Kind pays for sex, but not for soldiers.” The Wisconsin Republican Party denounced the ad, and several TV stations refused to air it, but that only got it more attention. It is the centerpiece of Nelson’s Web site: “This ad is so powerful, a sitting U.S. Congressman threatened TV stations with legal action if they dared to play it.”

Kind joked in an interview that he has been paying for sex ever since he said “I do.”

Love the “I do” line!  A great in-Kind contribution to the cause of political humor.  A Kinder, gentler, funnier nation is what we need.